{"id":1496,"date":"2011-07-25T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2011-07-25T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T06:01:08","slug":"stagecoach-in-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Stagecoach in Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst searching for something else I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/openlylocal.com\/suppliers\/279563-stagecoach-south-ltd\">website<\/a> which details how much Hampshire County Council spend with Stagecoach &#8211; \u00c2\u00a37,670,531 per year which equates to \u00c2\u00a3767,053 per month.  The payments are broken down and detail the category under which they&#8217;re paid and the category is the contract reference number.  Using HCC&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.hants.gov.uk\/passengertransport\/bus-subsidy-contracts.htm\"> website<\/a> the contract reference numbers are shown against the route they relate to.  So, for example, it can be seen that the majority of Stagecoach Winchester depot&#8217;s contracts are all grouped under contract W235 which a look up then indicates brings them around \u00c2\u00a334,000 per month!<\/p>\n<p>In September the bus subsidy cuts will come into effect reducing the \u00c2\u00a334,000 per month by possibly around a third.  This comes on top of the loss of their largest single contract, Alton College, which was won by Go-Ahead who will be taking over in September.  Tough times ahead methinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst searching for something else I stumbled upon this website which details how much Hampshire County Council spend with Stagecoach &#8211; \u00c2\u00a37,670,531 per year which equates to \u00c2\u00a3767,053 per month. The payments are broken down and detail the category under which they&#8217;re paid and the category is the contract reference number. Using HCC&#8217;s own website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}